Pakistan Aims to Revive Economy and Communities Through New Phase of China's Belt and Road Initiative
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Pakistan faces economic, environmental, and social challenges like poverty, food insecurity, slow growth, and climate change vulnerability.
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BRI 2.0 presents opportunities to revive Pakistan's economy via major projects like ML-1 and smaller "beautiful" initiatives.
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Small projects can support livelihoods of communities like Gwadar's fishermen, build capacity in agriculture, tourism, minerals.
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Green BRI investment can facilitate industrialization, green development through training programs.
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Pakistan must enhance work environment, proposals and implementation to fully benefit from CPEC and BRI 2.0 amid competition.